Re: To speak or not to speak, that is the question
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After the turn card is dealt, Player A bets $15. Player B moves all-in for $25. Player C calls. The dealer turns back to A, who immediately pushes all-in for around $90. As the dealer turns to C for his action, I speak up and point out that A does not have the option to re-raise there.
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Sorry to ask, but why is it no option for A to re-raise? I never played in a casino, as I couldn't afford it. So I only play online. But when I see it right, A bets, B raises AI, C calls the raise... so why can A only call or fold?!
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The standard rule in no-limit cash games is that if an all-in bet is not a full raise, then any player who called the previous bet does not re-gain the option to put in another raise. By "full raise" here, I mean a raise that is at least the size of the previous raise (if there was one), or double the current bet (if there was no previous raise). Here, if the all-in player had had $30 left instead of just $25, and C called that, A would have the option to re-raise, because his $15 got a full, legal raise. As it actually happened, the $25 wasn't really a raise (technically it was a "call plus action"). For A to put in a reraise means that he would, in effect, be raising his own previous bet. If B had raised instead of calling the $25, that, too, would re-open things to A for a re-raise, because then he is not raising his own prior bet.
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